As the writer of reports winning high prizes at competitions, Hoang Van Chien, born in 1988, has experienced many hardships to become a journalist aiming to protect wildlife named in the Red Book.

The hills in Soc Son District and Ba Vi District (Hanoi) are turning messier these days due to forest land and agricultural land encroachment to build resorts, homestays for personal profit.

Vietnam is home to a primeval forest described as a “big school” that has helped spread the love for nature for the past nearly six decades.

The Vietnamese public is overwhelmingly in favour of the closure of high-risk markets selling animals coming from the wild, a survey has found.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has turned down proposals from Binh Thuan, Quang Nam, and Ninh Binh provinces for forest land to be used for several projects.

A large area of a forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been destroyed for months, but local authorities have claimed that they knew nothing about the incident.

Natural disasters and floods have devastated central Vietnam at a record level. So far, 130 people have been reported dead, and 18 others are missing.

A pine forest in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has died after being poisoned.

The recognition of OECMs (other effective area-based conservation measures) as a complementary approach to efforts to establish official reserves gives Vietnam an opportunity to expand and link the nation’s conservation networks.

A meeting was held in Hanoi on June 26 to review the project on support for preparing the readiness to carry out the international framework “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD+) in Vietnam Phase 2 (FCPF-2).

A tree that appeared at the same time as dinosaurs in Southeast Asia is dying under the hand of humans.

Natural forests have been closed for a few years as per the command from the Prime Minister. However, the forests still continue to disappear.

Thousands of square metres of protective forest in the northern province of Tuyen Quang's Lang Chua Village have been destroyed, but local authorities and forest rangers say nothing has been done about it.

A large area of forest at the Ea So Natural Reserve in Dak Lak and Gia Lai provinces have been destroyed by illegal logging activities.

Vietnam’s special-use forests (SUF), with diverse natural resources, have great potential for ecotourism, experts say.

Over 9.4 thousand hectares of forest land in the central highlands province of Gia Lai had been encroached between three years from 2016 to November 2019 according to local inspectors.

The southern Dong Nai province is seeking financial resources to develop and preserve natural forests.

A large area of protective forest in the central highlands province of Dak Lak was destroyed during the Tet holiday.

Police have arrested five illegal loggers who allegedly attacked a forest ranger in Yók Đôn National Park.